it is our pleasure to invite you all to the planned two-day Conference of the Bulgaria Chapter of MCAA that will take place in Sofia on May 17th and May 18th (Friday and Saturday) 2019. The venue is The Info center of the Joint Innovation center of the Bulgarian Academy of sciences – “Acad. Bontchev” street – bl.26B

The program this year will be dedicated to “Excellent Science facing the Challenges to Science-based Industries” and will

include presentations from most of our active members that will share the experience they have got through their participation in ITN or RISE projects, or as Individual Fellows. The opennig will be followed by a panel on Our MCAA Awardees - with presentations from Prof. Stefka Fidanova (Sofia) - MCAA Carrier Award-2018, and Assoc. Prof. Kristina Bliznakova (Varna) awarded the ‘Contributing to a better society’ prize of MSCA for 2017.

On the second day, updated information about the news on MSCA IF 2019 Call and ERC applications will be presented by the NCPs, along with the most recent information on the corresponding National Programmes "Petar Beron" and "Vihren" that are intended to fund the applicants awarded with the Seal of Excellence.

Please, reserve the dates, and do your best to participate.

The final program of the Conference will be communicated as soon as all details are finalised.

Date:

Friday, 17 May, 2019 to Saturday, 18 May, 2019, (All day) - (All day)

Location City:

Sofia 1113

Info center of the Joint Innovation center of the Bulgarian Academy of sciences

We would like to welcome you for the upcoming event organized by Marie Curie Alumni Association Spain-Portugal Chapter, with kind support of European Framework Programme Department – CSIC, that will take place in Madrid, Friday the 17th May 2019. In this event, we will discuss academic career development paths and opportunities in Spain and Europe. We have three speakers who will share their experiences in writing successful proposals to get funding in early, intermediate and advanced stage of academic career. In the end of the talks, there is a social time to promote networking.